By Jim Rossignol on November 15th, 2008 at 8:39 pm.
My intention was to download the 250mb demo and play some of Quite Soulless, by Vasily Zotov, and then offer some impressions. Sadly it works for a mere five seconds on my PC, just long enough to see a stiffly animated, mohawked protagonist turn around and waddle towards me. Perhaps the trailer, which is found after the cut, will give you a better insight into the entertainments contained within this unusual 3D adventure… Thanks to TIGSource for the link.
Oh my…
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That throw up animation….. wow….
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I had the same problem. I got a few moments into the first room, attempted to chat to someone and the whole game bombed out.
Is that Gillian Anderson in the first screenshot?
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What was happening in that bathroom?
A duel with a cockroach?
I have no idea what this about. Regardless Jonothan – the protagonist, just seems high.
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I don’t envy the roasting the makers will get from the graphics are everything zealots. Regardless, lots of awful, sluggish animations in there, made it painful to watch the video.
Control issues too, though I’m curious about how they’ve done the interface, if I’m seeing that correctly, when you go to inventory you get a television screen view of the character and surroundings, not seen that before.
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Should’ve hired the Limbo of the Lost art team.
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Why is Odo from Deep Space 9 coming out of that woman’s mouth.
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I think I’d just like to add, Janek deserves a trophy for best post of the day.
Made me laugh, out loud too.
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It works on my PC, it’s just incredibly peculiar. Lot’s of figure’s of speech. Dead Indians who are alive, beyond? the clouds… It’s just strange, I’ll give it a try when I’m not tired.
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Possibly the best game I have played all year.
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@ Pags
What other games have you played?
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I’ll leave it to someone else to point out I probably wasn’t being serious :)
Gotta say though, it’s kind of compelling in that it’s just utterly bizarre.
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This is.. what is this?
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The best game you’ll play all year.
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No longer possibly! It just is!
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What’s with the soundtrack?!
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The soundtrack is perfection incarnate.
It’s with your ears that the problem lies.
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Quite Soulless, more like Limbo of the Lost: Original Content Edition.
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Looks better than Myst
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is it me, or is it 1996 in here?
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Awesome! I always wanted to play Timecube: The Video Game.
If you read the ‘story’ page it all makes perfect sense. Caution, spoilers! Well, unless Jonothan’s sister Stacy being killed by the Soviet Straight Walking Rat (which worked for the aliens) happens before the game starts, anyway.
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That’s the finest combat engine I’ve ever even heard of.
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WTF was that?
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Helling fuck.
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Wonder what percentage THIS game’ll get pirated.
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Shut your filthy elitist mouths. Don’t you Philistines understand that indy = awesome, regardless of quality, coherence, and content?
Uncultured swine.
Also, if the trailer doesn’t explain it, the site certainly does… :-\
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That has got to be THE most rediculous install procedure I’ve ever seen. First, you pick a directory to install the installer. The installer then runs and asks you to choose a directory to install the actual game. It then installs 7zip and Adobe Acrobat (each with their own installer). It’s rather strange.
Next, after the game starts there’s the main menu, with strange flashing colours and something that seems to function like a rotary phone dial thingy. It has menu options around it that turn around when you press the down key (and ONLY the down key), but at first glance there seems absolutely no way of telling which of these options is actually selected. On closer inspection I found a dim arrow-like shape pointing to one option. So I go to see what’s in the options menu, which turns out to be a list of key functions rather than any actual options. Now that I’m unexpectedly furnished with a vague knowledge of what buttons to press I figure I’m ready to start the game.
Unfortunately, what I then experienced in playing the game can only be effectively expressed in abstract expressionist painting. I’ll return for more in the morning when I’m not quite this freaked out.
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Is this crappy art or postmodern commentary on crappy art? I can’t tell.
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If you take 1/2 of what this guy had you get Zoo Race, 1/4 of it gets you “wii” rather than revolution, and an 1/8 of it makes you trip balls.
also, wat
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Reminds me of the “Money for nothing” video clip.
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best link to demo ever
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I literally cried with laughter at the first cutscene. Now I’m stuck on what I think is the first puzzle.
Also, there’s an item called ‘stuff’ in the inventory. Genius.
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I’m going to go huff superglue. It’s the only way to stop myself from being high now I’ve watched that link.
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Yet another identikit UE3 shooter. Yawn.
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Gun duel with a Kalashnikov wielding cockroach on it’s way to school?
yes, why not? …
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So many questions, so few answers. Why have I seemingly been discharged from a psychiatric hospital with a loaded gun and a hatchet? Why do I have the key to an alien machine which turns me into Rolf Harris (just as I was getting attached to the main character too, what a shame)? Why did that guy shoot those birds? Who was in that helicopter flying over what I’d like to describe as a prison run by cockroaches? Why did said helicopter crash? Why is my head now on the body of an enormous crow?
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Zoo Race? Oh sweet god, I’d forgotten. Time to bust out the video to drive the bf insane again!
Yay!
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Lest it be forgotten:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfV2OzEHwg
Lest.It.Be.Forgotten.
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It wasn’t ALL bad…I saw a nice camera angle. But the rest was quite bad.
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I just saw that ZOO RACER GAME MOVIE and I would like to know if my drugs are on drugs.
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No, that’s the power of the lord. Not only can he launch horses unharmed out of cannon, he makes your drugs seem paltry by comparison.
That’s faith.
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I downloaded the zoo racer game demo from zoorace.com and Avast says it’s a virus. I guess I won’t be playing it. :(
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I can barely cope with the awesomeness of the trailer, I don’t think I could play the game and stay sane.
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Someone’s been taking Second Life a little too seriously.
Best bit: rollercoaster tea trolley.
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The website is absolute nonsensical gold. Here’s a few extracts from the game’s walkthrough:
Fuck yes.
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If monkeys and sweet refreshing crack werent involved in the development i’m going to be dissapointed.
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oh my god… oh my god… oh my god…. oh my god.
melt.
oh my god.
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Ahaha I forgot how awesome this was.
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